Graduate Trainee Chartered Accountant

About the role

Edinburgh Airport is looking to recruit a Chartered Accountant trainee to join the Finance Team. This will be Edinburgh Airport’s fourth year recruiting as part of a highly successful Training Outside Professional Practice Scheme (‘TOPPS’) scheme.

We’re looking for the successful candidate to start in 2027.

Why Edinburgh Airport?

· A fast-growing, dynamic business – Scotland’s busiest and fastest growing airport

· UK’s 6th largest airport

· 17m passengers in 2025 and growing

· As the place Where Scotland Meets The World, Edinburgh Airport fly to more than 160 destinations and work with 40 airlines to welcome people to Scotland and take Scotland to the world

· Multi-million capital investment programme underway to support future growth and provide a better passenger experience, all whilst supporting the Airport’s carbon reduction ambitions

· Owned by commercially focussed investors incentivising growth, creating an innovative environment

What you’ll be doing

· There is a vast, diverse range of activities at the Airport, including operational activities, supporting airlines and passengers, police service, fire safety service, transport links, retail units, and car parking.

· This ensures that the successful candidate would benefit from a unique experience as part of the Edinburgh Airport Finance team, working with our transactional team supporting billing and supplier payments, the financial control team responsible for statutory accounts preparation and cashflow management and taxation, and the business partnering team providing insight on financial performance to the business.

· Experience offered throughout 3-year training programme as part of a diverse and dynamic team, across various Finance disciplines:

o Transactional services

o Statutory accounts preparation

o Management accounting / business partnering

o Financial control

o Taxation – direct and indirect

o Internal audit

o Treasury

· Option to specialise in one discipline in final year

· High number of Chartered Accountants within Finance team (and out with Finance team) from Practice and Industry backgrounds to offer support with studies and to learn from day to day

· Potential for secondments to other functions within Edinburgh Airport

What we’re looking for

We understand not everyone will meet all the requirements below, but if you can tick off most of the list, we’d love to hear from you.

· A high performer with a strong academic record

· Able to demonstrate a high level of attention to detail

· Enthusiastic to learn and to work in a fast-paced environment

· Able to communicate confidently and clearly with people from all levels and backgrounds

· Able to work well under pressure

· Studying towards an Honours degree, preferably accountancy or business related, with a predicted grade of 2:1 or above.

What we’ll offer you

· Opportunity to work as part of a high achieving team in a dynamic working environment

· Flexible working- whether that’s hybrid or flexible hours, we’ll help you find an option that suits you

· Pension scheme- employer contributions can be up to 7%

· Annual discretionary bonus

· Supporting your health and wellbeing- private healthcare after 1 years’ service, access to our Employee Assistance Programme and occupational health services

· 32 days holiday, increasing with service

· Free car parking on site and when you go on holiday · We offer a range of other benefits, find out more here